A & M Building & Condo Maintenance, Inc. v. Atlas Electric of Staten Island, Inc.

—In an action to recover damages for the wrongful discharge of a lien, the defendants Canfield, Venusti, Madden & Rossi, LLP, and John P. Ruggiero appeal from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Rosenberg, J.), dated March 21, 2001, as denied that branch of their motion pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7) which was to dismiss the plaintiffs third cause of action alleging prima facie tort, and the plaintiff cross-appeals from so much of the same order as granted those branches of the motion which were to dismiss the plaintiffs second, fourth, and fifth causes of action,…